Forster is always undoing, and no less so in this account of the remote princely court of Dewas in Madhya Pradesh, where he visited and worked as private secretary to the Maharajah in the early C20th. Another wonderful reprint from Eland.
The Hill of Devi: An Englishman at the Court of a Maratha Maharaja in 1921
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£12.99
Edition:Paperback978178060160125/03/2022
Categories: 11. Books for the New Year 2022: Travel, Books for the New Year 2022, Travel
Tags: India, Memoir, South Asia
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